Impact Soundworks has announced Peak Rider 2, a “super-powerful and flexible FX plugin that lets you shape and control dynamics in a totally new way.” Use it to tame wild vocals or drum tracks, create all new rhythmic parts, remove mic bleed, breathe life into flat saturated tracks, and much, much more.

Beyond simple compression, limiting, or gating, Peak Rider 2 uses five unique processing modes to smoothly shape the dynamic and frequency contours of your audio. Use an external sidechain as the peak controller, an internal copy, or – new in Version 2 – a generated synth / noise tone.

Also new in Version 2 is EQ Mode, a clean and clear parametric EQ great for precision editing. But the real magic is in the Mix knob: turn it up to auto-compensate the volume changes made by your EQ tweaks. This works even for the steepest cuts and boosts, keeping your track volume nice and steady!

Peak Rider 2 is now available for $99 in VST2, VST3, AU, AAX, and PC RTAS formats. Upgrades for owners of Peak Rider 1 are just $10 from account.

Christopher Simmons has been a working journalist since his first magazine sale in 1984. He has since written for wide variety of print and online publications covering lifestyle, tech and entertainment. He is an award-winning author, designer, photographer, and musician. He is a member of ASCAP and PRSA. He is the founder and CEO of Neotrope®, based in Torrance, CA, USA.

MuseWire™ – the Synth Magazine covers music makers, synthesizers, electronic music gear, the music industry and related topics – a publication of Neotrope® – formerly Music Industry Newswire. Est 2004. Edited by Christopher Laird Simmons, a working tech journalist since 1984, and member ASCAP.